Cascade
Combining his artistic and technical experience, Maarten Buyl translates the dynamics between composition and sound design into a language of sound. This language, while rooted in the principles of both disciplines, has the potential to become an autonomous form of sound art.
The project focuses on the development of a catalog of elementary sonorous building blocks, collected through live recordings and studio recordings. The study and the practice of diverse listening practices – which are approached from a historical, cultural, sociological and technological perspective – form the base for a creative and experimental 'sound perception' methodology. Both processes – the database of sound profiles and the analytical observations – are integrated in the development of a compositional toolkit and software implementations for (real-time) sonic treatment. |
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ARCADe
In an ongoing series of instrumental and electronic compositions by Maarten Buyl, changing voices, percussion and live electronics fuse sound and composition into a special ecosystem. They provide the perspective from which the listener gains access to a changeable, 'liquid' sound zone. In the diptych CASCADE/ARCADE, singers, percussionists and a children's choir make a connection with poetry and sound with the live electronics that mirror, question, bend and hide their musical reality: a sonorous spatial sketch that excites the ears until the eyes do the invisible see.
With Naomi Beeldens, NN (vocals), Vincent Caers and Ruben Martinez (percussion), Maarten Beirens (composition and electronics), Lars Morren (sound)
In cooperation with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (recordings with children's choir integrated into the work), De Bijloke, NONA Mechelen, Lunalia Festival
Première CASCADE/ARCADE - 24 februari 22 in De Bijloke (Big Hall)
With Naomi Beeldens, NN (vocals), Vincent Caers and Ruben Martinez (percussion), Maarten Beirens (composition and electronics), Lars Morren (sound)
In cooperation with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (recordings with children's choir integrated into the work), De Bijloke, NONA Mechelen, Lunalia Festival
Première CASCADE/ARCADE - 24 februari 22 in De Bijloke (Big Hall)